Would you personally be willing to take up arms to prevent red states from seceding?

[haele]

47. Won't happen. They're too tied economically to the blue sections within their own states.

The current "Red States" are only able to maintain their economic viability through their condensed blue urban areas (which are often abused terribly by the rural interests claiming to be the "real citizens" or the "good, godly citizens&quot , or through subsidies by the blue states.
They talk a good game to whip up their constituents, but when the conspirators gather together to work out how they will run things once they secede, the meeting usually ends up in a whimpering scrapping of the supposedly glorious plan.

They'd rather build their echo-chamber compounds, pretending to be "self sustaining" while they live off subsidies and tax revenue made on the backs of normal people who actually work hard for a living. Bring in a few illegals to teach their poor cousins how to do that hard husbandry and farming work, along with the resource gathering and light manufacturing needed to keep the compound going. They'll go out hunting, bloviating, and playing keyboard warrior - that's the hard work that makes them leaders!
And they can bad-mouth "elites" and city folk while they do so.

Haele